Source SRINAGAR,, INDIA June 28, 2013( The Hindu): The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Friday amid tight security, with pilgrims starting their journey for the 3880-meter-high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. Amidst chants of Bam Bam Bole, the first batch of pilgrims started on the arduous 45-km trek from traditional Pahalgam route, and 13-km from Baltal simultaneously, in the…
Source The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze, but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere.— Ramayana
Source TORONTO, CANADA, June 25, 2013 (Toronto Star): Kalakad Sundaram Sathi died peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family, after a brief but courageous experience with cancer. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Shanthi, his daughters Nalini Valliere (David), Sulekha Sathi (Steven O’Rourke) and Nandini Sathi (Neal Weinstein). He leaves his five grandchildren: Nisha, Yashoda, Maya,…
Source GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, June 28, 2013 (ANI): People from South Asian countries like from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are urged to exercise more than white Europeans to achieve the same levels of fitness and reduce their risk of diabetes. Researchers at the University of Glasgow have found that lower fitness levels in middle-aged men of South Asian origin are contributing…
Source SHIMLA, INDIA,June 26, 2013 (Zee News): Temple offerings are for providing better facilities to devotees and not for buying vehicles for temple officials, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ruled. It has restrained the functionaries of the Chintpurni temple, a popular Hindu shrine in Una district, from using the vehicles purchased from the temple funds. Temple officer Subhash Chand…
Source INDIA, June 27, 2013 (Headlines Today): The TV channel Headlines Today recreates flooding of the Mandakini river through Kedarnath in this program. Experts tell the exact sequence of how the flood broke loose above the Kedar dome at 12,000 feet in Uttarakhand, then moved down the river destroying first Kedarnath, then each village along its banks, all with no…
Source Like a tortoise withdrawing five limbs into its shell, those who restrain the five senses in one life will find safe shelter for seven.— Tirukkural 126
Source SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, June 26, 2013 (Union Tribune): Lengthy closing arguments in the trial challenging a yoga program in Encinitas public schools pushed back a ruling to Thursday at the earliest, a judge said Tuesday. The case is believed to be the first of its kind to test whether yoga is a secular exercise or a form of Hindu-based…
Source ILLINOIS, U.S., June 24, 2013 (The Southern): The first Hindu temple in Carbondale, Southern Illinois, represents more than a house of prayer for hundreds of people. It also establishes a center for a community to better define itself and perhaps grow, said several people celebrating the temple’s inauguration Sunday. The 4,000 square-foot temple not only gives hundreds of practicing…
Source GUPTKASHI, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA, June 27, 2013: As the mammoth rescue operations in the Uttarakhand disaster neared completion, around 2,500 survivors remained to be evacuated in Badrinath and Hershil Thursday but concerns grew over the fate of 3,000 people who were reported missing. Amid fears of epidemic outbreak, the focus shifted to retrieving bodies buried in debris and expediting mass…